Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-31386746-20170411234306/@comment-31398341-20170529172833

SergJack wrote: Exactly. Here are some more newbie mistakes:

- putting Focus Sash on a pokemon with 4 recoil moves

- putting Eviolite on random non fully evolved pokemon ( its designed to be used by walls, and not pokemon like Vibrava and Charmeleon )

- looking only at base stat total of a pokemon and ignore their individual stats ( Hp, Attack, Defense etc. )

- ignoring the sideffects of a move and only look at its base power

- thinking Scyther is better that Scizor and vice versa ( they have the exact base stat totals)

- thinking Crystal onix is better than regular onix

- train Tyranitar in Speed

- train Greninja in Hp

- putting Leftovers on sweepers

- putting Iron Ball on Crobat ( without Fling )

- not having AT LEAST ONE priority move on their team ( trust me, u need it. )

- using weak moves only because THEY thing its powerfull, and then get a huge dissapointment in Battle Colloseum

- buying random items in Battle Colloseum

- Hyper Training a random stat in Battle Colloseum

and so on... Mostly true, but I have to disagree with you at two points. Scizor is actually better than Scyther due to its typing and access to STAB + Technician Bullet Punch. And also its bulk that strengthens its role as a bulky setup sweeper which Scyther cannot do.

Sometimes putting Leftovers on sweepers can be useful. Like Calm Mind Clefable, a bulky wincon.

Many of these are specific examples, but I agree with all of them.